By Alain Deneef. Presented at Crowdsourcing Week Europe 2016. For more information and details on our next event, visit www.crowdsourcingweek.com.

1. Business Route 2018 for metropolitan Brussels
Crowdsourcing Week Europe, Brussels - November 23, 2016
Shifting from the occupation of space
to the mastery of time
Alain Deneef, Intendant of Brussels Metropolitan

2. I. Brussels Metropolitan
in a nutshell

3. Identity
Brussels Metropolitan, also called «Business Route 2018 for
Metropolitan Brussels», is a common initiative of inter-branch
employers organisations, at regional and federal levels, namely
BECI, Voka, UWE and the FEB.
The association has been created in 2008, as a dialog platform
for the 3 regions surrounding Brussels, in order to promote the
social and economic development of the metropolitan region,
thanks to a better co-operation.
The association calls for a mobility shift, an ambitious strategy
to revitalize mobility and to re-enforce socio-economic
development of the Brussels’ metropolis.
• it puts stakeholders around the table, above the linguistic
barriers, to create an interregional dialogue,
• it proposes solutions, runs 12 projects with a road map,
• it raises awareness and informs through lobbying, events and
communication.
2008 - 2018

4. Founding Members and Institutional Partners

5. Private Partners

6. II. About space and time in
mobility

7. Introduction
However the perception
of space is more direct
However the perception
of space is more direct
In our daily life, we
focus on the passage of
time rather than on the
measure of distance

8. 1. Mobility is the capacity of crossing the
distance between two points
• In mobility, we sometimes
consider space in terms of
time instead of distance
• But time is both an objective
and a subjective reality
Still, in mobility we tend to
privilege space over time
Still, in mobility we tend to
privilege space over time

9. 2. Shifting from the occupation of space
to the mastery of time
• In mobility, we privilege
infrastructure over processes
• Results : more demand and
more competition for space
An effective control of our
journey time requires that we
interrogate our true needs
An effective control of our
journey time requires that we
interrogate our true needs

10. 3. The need for mobility
• ‘Need’: it is the necessity to cross a
distance between A and B
• A need can be absolute or relative
• Is a need sometimes a wish ?
An effective control of our journey
time requires that we reformulate
our demand
An effective control of our journey
time requires that we reformulate
our demand

11. 4. The demand for mobility
• ‘Demand’: it is the expression of the
need of going from A to B from
different points of view: time, space
and transportation modalities
• If the need is real, the demand can
be modulated
A newly formulated demand requires
a mental shift
A newly formulated demand requires
a mental shift

12. Conclusion:
a more intelligent demand
facing a more diversified offer
‘The way we run our road system is the last remnant of the
Stalinist state: We ration demand by queueing’
Feargus O’Sullivan, London-based journalist, CityLab – 28
October 2016

13. Conclusion:
from the competition in space
to the collaboration in time
‘One of the faults which we occasionally observe in socio-
political activity is that spaces and power are preferred to
time and processes.
Giving priority to space means madly attempting to keep
everything together in the present, trying to possess all the
spaces of power and of self-assertion’.
Giving priority to time means being concerned about
initiating processes rather than possessing spaces.
Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, #223 – November 2013

14. CONTACT
BRUSSELS METROPOLITAN
ALAIN DENEEF - INTENDANT
LINKEDIN : BRUSSELS METROPOLITAN
TWITTER : #BruMETROPOLITAN
PHONE : (+32) 475 48 48 10
alain.deneef@brusselsmetropolitan.eu